SEARCH RESULTS

living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...

of tradition. Just because things have always been done a certain way does not mean that such traditions are good for any communit...

limited means to make a living. The fires he sets may be construed as the rage that burns inside of him. This arsonist is continua...

day to trip me up" (Updike). This is a line that also suggests he may be judgmental as well. But, in essence, he is very much symb...

many years, that she hardly heard them at all" (Lawrence). In these references it is quite clear that Mabel is essentially...

Mr. Henderson; Sheriff Peters and his wife and Mr. Hale and his wife Martha. The five of them go to the Wright place the morning a...

camps, and symbolic of the true need to survive, something not really seen in the mother or the infant who all but seem to accept ...

social factor to which he is excluded, Abners anger is compounded by the fact that the Negro servant does not acknowledge his whit...

is presumably himself, as an adult, looking back at the things his father did for him. These are things that the child clearly nev...

of a mother or a sister; and on his head was a three-cornered hat, which in its better days had perhaps sheltered the graver brow ...

fact. In "The Black Cat," the narrator tells readers that he was "docile" and "tender of heart" as a youth, and that he retained t...

in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...

man called each living creature, that was its name" (Genesis 2:19). Adam gave names to all of them "But, for Adam no suitable help...

the Russian culture has long remained something of a mystery as well. Even despite the seemingly mysterious nature of Russian l...

long as he can maintain he position of self-imposed eminence. Because Samia cannot remember where she left her very valuable ring...

to look at his own veiled prejudices if only through the eyes of his bigoted mother. Says Mrs. Chestney, in a typical outburst th...

In five pages these short stories are compared in terms of the community importance that exists in each of them. Four sources are...

in this sort of limbo (Carver). He seems to be dealing with it, but he knows how hard it is on the children, who are crying themse...

In five pages this report examines how the primary characters in each of these short stories undergoes different changes. Five so...

we use our life experiences to decide what wee believe otherwise to be. In Young Goodman Brown we are faced with a...

Prue has the insight to ask Gordon if he wants to marry her, Prue, when he falls out of love with this new person in his life. Go...

In six pages this paper analyzes Sarah Orne Jewett's short story in terms of female identity and youthful sexuality. Four sources...

terrible shock and pain of learning about Sonnys arrest, and the fear that the narrator feels for his brothers future. The feeling...

In five pages the fine line betwen love and hate is examined in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stor, 'Young Goodman B...

major role in shaping our behavior, temperament, and intelligence" (PBS). While nature plays important roles in ones life, the env...

she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...

women: "During the early 20th century the term new woman came to be used in the popular press. More young women than ever were goi...

This 3 page paper discusses the short story “A Fifty-Year Old Man” by Shusaku Endo and answers questions about it. Bibliography li...

History of a Campaign That Failed" with a recounting of his interactions with another young man that was about the same age that h...

even a bit of steak tartar. My selections were decidedly more conventional, such as the vegetarian roll with cucumber, avocado, t...